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Gender Equity in the new economy: Ensuring social justice, equality in the global race to reduce emissions
Bipasha Baruah is working to understand how to ensure a global, low-carbon economy will be more gender-equitable and socially just than its fossil-fuel-based predecessor. .
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Course Welcome Videos - Fall 2021
Professor Jeremy Johnston - GSWS 3330F: Gender, Race, and Rebellion
Professor Laura Cayen - GSWS 4461: Post-feminism, Advertising, and Influencers
By Mark Wolfe
Florence Wullo Anfaara, the PhD candidiate of Women’s Studies and Transitional Justice, have been named among 166 nationwide recipients of 2020-21 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships. .
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Eternity Martis, BA'14 (English Language and Literature/Women's Studies), was recently named one of Six Canadian writers of black heritage to watch in 2020 by CBC Books.
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Tracy Isaacs (Philosophy) and Samantha Brennan (former Women's Studies/Philosophy professor at 澳门六合彩开奖预测 now Dean of Arts at the University of Guelph) have released a new book, Fit at Mid-Life: A Feminist Fitness Journey.
The realities of climate change have prompted many nations to strive for greener industries. This includes the development of new technologies which are less carbon-intensive, and the overhaul of sectors such as energy and transportation where women are traditionally poorly represented in the workforce. As the green economy develops, thousands of jobs will be created, but it is unlikely that women will have equal access to these opportunities. Dr Bipasha Baruah, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Women’s Issues, 澳门六合彩开奖预测, Canada, examines the reasons for this inequality.
Professor & Canada Research Chair in Global Women's Issues, 澳门六合彩开奖预测, on how women's NGOs are improving the lives of women in the developing world, but are often "dismissed as supplementary and dispensable by the other partners." Co-authored by Research Associate, International Development, McGill University.
Professor & Canada Research Chair in Global Women's Issues, 澳门六合彩开奖预测, on acid attacks around the world, the perpetrators' motives and what can be done. Co-authored by lumni, 澳门六合彩开奖预测.
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Congratulations to alumna Sarah Saska, PhD’16 (Women's Studies and Feminist Research at 澳门六合彩开奖预测) who has been named a recipient of the "2017 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award"
Levi Hord, a fourth-year Sexuality Studies, School for Advanced Studies in Arts & Humanities (SASAH) and Scholar’s Electives student, was named a recipient of the 2018 Rhodes Scholarship, an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford.
Undergraduate Awards
Warmest congratulations to our students whose papers were selected as “Highly Commended” this year for The Undergraduate Awards Levi Hord, Alessia Mastrorillo & Rebecca Meharchand.
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Levi Hord is the 23rd 澳门六合彩开奖预测 student in 110 years to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.
February 26, 2017
Thirty years ago, Women’s Studies was just an idea at 澳门六合彩开奖预测. Now, it’s one of the most dynamic and successful programs in the university. And it couldn’t come at a more needed time.
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Samantha Brennan, who teaches in the departments of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research, Philosophy, and Political Science, recently hosted an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session. Her AMA generated more than 526 comments in two hours and yielded more than 500 up-votes, landing the post a coveted third place spot on the front page of /r/philosophy.
Around the world this Earth Day, as a growing army of women stand up for a more sustainable planet, mainstream environmental groups are becoming more inclusively female. For years, the mainstream environmental movement in North America has been criticized for being the purview (mostly) of white dudes.Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May, who headed up the Sierra Club of Canada from 1989 to 2006, recalls that while most major national environmental groups had male executive directors in the 80s and 90s, “the real environmental movement was and is, at the grassroots, led by mostly women.”..
Bipasha Baruah on the gender gap in the renewable energy sector
First, there is systemic misperception and devaluation of women’s technical abilities. Women in technical fields are deemed less competent than men even when they are more highly qualified than their male peers. Second, women are underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) fields almost everywhere in the world, and employment in the best paid jobs in Renewable Energy, namely, construction, installation, engineering and architecture tend to require STEM training. Third, public policies and corporate policies to enable equity in training and employment in RE are either very weak or absent. And finally, the persistence of patriarchal social norms and assumptions about breadwinning and caregiving makes it difficult for women to assert themselves at par with men..
I don’t like our university’s reputation sometimes.
This week, I was at Brock giving an invited guest lecture on micro-inequities and implicit bias to their newly founded women’s caucus and the first question I was asked was about Jordan Peterson. “Didn’t 澳门六合彩开奖预测 give Jordan Peterson a warm welcome? It’s odd having someone from such a conservative campus speak to us about bias and discrimination.” I sighed. I knew the source of the question. “Controversial University of Toronto prof gets warm welcome at 澳门六合彩开奖预测,” read the National Post headline.....
Emma Donoghue's The Wonder has been nominated for the Giller Prize!
